> That's fine. Do what you do.

If you realise you're bad at something it seems immoral to keep charging people for it.

That's fine. Do what you do. But don't read this article as any sort of science. It's massively opinionated rage-bait.

[0]: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard

It accounts for about 20% of my sales. I was about to write 'overwhelmingly Europeans' and I thought I better check. Nope.

    Row Labels      Count of Country
    ----------      ----------------
    United States   54
    Germany         12
    Australia       10
    United Kingdom  7
    Netherlands     7

I have, but never use, a 'credit card'. The thing I use every day is a 'debit card', where the money comes straight from my account. But it still has 16 digits and Visa written on the front.

It's almost like you didn't read the article.

Reading this article it makes sense why it feels too fast to be real, especially when using a powered phone. The things are already communicating as my hand is moving towards the reader. By the time it gets there, it's happened.

Stunningly good.

I use an Obsidian vault and my system. "It's at 23.16", I tell Claude. From that it can instantly find my notes and files.

No extra software needed. Just some basic structure. Claude loves it. [1]

Oh yeah, and to keep conversation context contained so you can /resume and so on, just

    $ cd 23.16
    $ claude

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAT0Ft--wE

```statusline-command.sh

    #!/bin/sh
    input=$(cat)

    model=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.model.display_name // empty' | sed 's/ context)/)/')
    effort=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.effort.level // empty')
    used=$(echo "$input" | jq -r '.context_window.total_input_tokens // empty')
    out=""

    [ -n "$used" ] && out="ctx: $(( used / 1000 ))k"
    [ -n "$model" ] && out="$out / $model"
    [ -n "$effort" ] && out="$out $effort"

    # bright yellow + bold
    printf '\033[1;93m%s\033[0m' "$out"

You get Copilot to do this for you.

Later at the review meeting, errors are found. A bunch of stuff was missed, the costs were off.

Whose fault is it? Who looks stupid? If it's bad enough, who gets fired?

I 100% agree with the sentiment. If I had staff, it's the benchmark I'd apply (even if I did word it a touch differently).

Here, let me paste you, verbatim, an ex-colleague's LinkedIn description. This might be more up your alley.

    Over 25 years’ experience employing strong business and architectural skills in orchestrating and delivering innovative solutions that provide quantifiable business value to medium and large enterprises.

    I have strong technical leadership, a broad background in technology and a deep understanding of business drivers and challenges across multiple sectors which enables me to assist organisations in removing technical blockers and delivering business outcomes. Employing enterprise architecture principles, I am able to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic operational delivery to ensure life-cycle optimisation, organisational change and IT governance requirements are addressed.

God knows I've tried. I've got a variant of the ASD-STE100 trick which does the job, mostly, at the start … but get to about 100k of context and it goes out the window.

The model's personality is too strong for simple suggestion, alas.

https://kagi.com/images?q=e5+h5+shinkansen&r=au&sh=fWcD0dVpC...

It occurred to me that the catastrophe I could have caused simply by ripping out as many cables as I could see would have been … if not a mini-recession, certainly the sort of thing that moved markets.

Yeah yeah, redundancy and backups. I knew the infrastructure. It wouldn't have worked, not for weeks anyway.

To be in said room, I had undergone a cursory police check.

I agree. But.

I run an online business. It's tough. I scrape by. GP noted that the skeezy popup "Boosted conversion rate meaningfully". So that's real money in GP's pocket that they presumably use to have a nicer life. At what cost? Some popup? I mean…

Would I take more money in my pocket? Boy, I'd like that. So far I haven't gone the skeezy popup route, but the day I try, and more money ends up in my pocket, it's gonna be hard to turn that thing off.

I'm not judging, is all I'm saying.

"Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/13/asia-heatwave-...

"Nothing I ever do again…" – and then, having barely held it together for the last 30 seconds, he has to stop. It brings me to tears every time I watch it.

A man realising the sheer magnitude of the thing he did. It's the most relevant part for humanity today.

Ah! Found it. This is a better clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaKyvr4ar1Q

Here's a selection from Typhoon Dolphin, currently sitting off the east coast of China.

    Dolphin continues its slow, trochoidal Z motion, generally heading westward deeper into the East China Sea. Over the past 12 hours, the system completed another cyclonic loop and has decelerated, exhibiting continued meandering prior to establishing a sustained westward track.

    The erratic motion witnessed over the past two days is attributable to a weak steering environment produced by a break in the subtropical ridge 2 over Korea, combined with the dynamics where the inner core is cocooned within a much larger parent circulation.

    While the general steering pattern is weak, a mesoscale deep-layer ridge is seen building over southern Japan.

Here's Chan-hom, which threatens to make my birthday a windy day here in northern Japan.

    Intensity guidance is in good agreement overall. However, the JTWC forecast is placed lower than all the guidance save for Google DeepMind over the next 36 hours, before joining the consensus envelope (which peaks at 95 km/h (50 knots) at 60 hours) through the remainder of the forecast.

So does that make it worse? At this point, I'm sorry, it does.